"The Fault of the Sky" Clarified by Scientific Insight and Outstanding Wisdom

President Kim Il Sung is a great leader and a benevolent father of the people that left a noble trace of love for and devotion to the people from the outset on the road of revolution to the last days of his life on his continued journey for the people ranging from factories to farms with "The People are my god" as his lifetime motto.

Chairman Kim Jong Il said:

"The great leader Comrade Kim Il Sung possesses a truly remarkable insight. No one in the world can match him in his insight."

In December, 1978, there held a joint meeting with President Kim Il Sung present of the Political Committee of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea, the (then) Central People's Committee of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and the (then) Administration Council of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

He said in the meeting that it was wrong that some officials attributed poor harvest in some areas of the western seaside of Korea that year to frequent natural disasters.

In fact, he had already given tasks to the officials in the agricultural sector to look into the reasons for poor harvest in South Phyongan Province. They reported to the President that the poor rice farming was because it had rained a lot at the time of spikelet flowering, which, in turn, led to poor pollination. After that he personally visited the (then) co-operative farm in Wonhwa-ri, Phyongwon County to be reported the same answer by the farm official.

Informing the officials present in the meeting about such facts, he said that a lot of rain at the time of flowering might have influenced pollination, to some extent, but it was not the only reason for poor rice farming in some areas of South Phyongan Province that year. He then gave detailed reasons.

He explained that spikelets usually flower in the period of no rain and it takes 7 to 10 days for them to flower and get pollinated, during which pollen falls upon the stigma to get fertilized in a very short time, and that this means that although there may be a lot of rain during pollination, it is next to impossible that there will be no time for pollination within 7 to 10 days.

He also said that a large number of empty husks of rice in Wonhwa Cooperative Farm in Phyongwon County that year meant that rice had been pollinated and that what led the success in pollination to the failure of ripening was not heavy rain. Informing the participants with the facts on rice damaged by high temperature and the status of paddy field after harvest, etc. he said that all the facts served as evidences that rice roots had got rotten by high temperature, thus giving light to the reason for poor rice farming in some regions.

Listening to his instructions running through wise analysis, the participants could not hold up their heads. Looking at them have a self-reproachful mood for a while, he added that poor harvest is attributed not to the fault of the "God", noxious insects or shortage of water but damage by high temperature, and that the prevention of the latter requires good water management, teaching the ways for it in detail.

They could not help admiring his scientific insight and outstanding wisdom with which he reasoned out the poor rice farming in relation with the essence of phenomena and biological principles, not the sky.

There has never been for all ages and countries such a genuine father of the people that made painstaking efforts to provide people with a more affluent life, making experimental plots in the garden of his house where he personally grew up different types of crops to figure out their biological properties while studying farming methods suitable for different regions.

That is why President Kim Il Sung will always be in the hearts of the Korean people as their eternal leader and benevolent father as ever.